<div dir="ltr">Hello Barrack, <div><br></div><div>This piqued my interest because we have recently partnered with a local LMS provider to provide an internal learning platform to our clients (well, they'll host their courses on our platform and then their staff access it through our website). But there's close to nil user data that we are collecting, as we issue them with user codes to access the platform. And so I don't see how LMS's could be compared with data harvesting by Facebook et al? I don't recall now what data I provided at Udemy for example but surely it must have just been first name, last name and email address? </div><div><br></div><div>Regards, </div><div><br></div><div>Kathy</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 16 Sept 2021 at 09:40, Barrack Otieno via KICTANet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Listers,</div><div><br></div><div>Might be of interest even as we look forwad to the conversation during the Kenya IGF week.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards<br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Winthrop Yu via InternetPolicy</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 8:47 AM<br>Subject: [Internet Policy] Privacy and Learning Platforms<br>To: <a href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a> <<a href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>><br></div><br><br>
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everyone is looking at Facebook et al. ... has there been
any oversight or concern over data harvesting by Learning
Platforms (LMS)? </span></span></div>
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<div><span><span>Obviously,
students, teachers, and other stakeholders have hardly any
say in the matter. <br>
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<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562517.2020.1739641" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562517.2020.1739641</a><br>
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start">"We conclude
that institutions of higher education are currently
ill-equipped to protect students and faculty required to
use the Canvas Instructure LMS from data harvesting or
exploitation. <br>
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start">We challenge
inevitability narratives and call for greater public
awareness concerning the use of predictive analytics,
impacts of algorithmic bias, need for algorithmic
transparency, and enactment of ethical and legal
protections for users who are required to use such
software platforms." <br>
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</span>WYn<br>
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